March 28, 2010

Rajasthan Royals continue their winning spree.....

Rajasthan Royals played another home match at Ahmedabad today against the visitors Chennai Super Kings. Rajasthan Royals won the toss & elected to bat first. Rajasthan Royals started their innings aggressively as they cruised to 100 in 11 overs just loosing 2 wickets. It was Naman Ojha who hit the ball very hard & scored 80 runs from just 49 deliveries which included 6 fours & 5 sixes. Rajasthan Royals completed their 20 overs by scoring 177 runs loosing 8 wickets.
Chennai Super Kings started to chase their target of 188, when chennai reached 24 runs, CSK's biggie Mathew Hayden got out by giving a catch to Yusuf Pathan which was caught & bowled. Opener Murali Vijay 42 from 28 balls & got out in 9th over. Thereon pressure started to bulid for CSK as the asking rate kept on increasing. At the end of 20 overs Chennai Super Kings scored 160 runs loosing 6 wickets thereby Rajasthan Royals won by 17 runs. This was the 4th successive win for Rajasthan Royals in this IPL edition 3.

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